Executive Movements @ Marriott in Asia

Marriott has appointed John Toomey as Vice President, Global Sales North Asia and Paul Er as Director Global Sales Singapore.

Toomey will have overall responsibility for providing strategic sales leadership for the hospitality company’s global sales efforts throughout Greater China, Japan and South Korea, with particular focus on developing and managing core business segment strategies that are in alignment with Marriott's overall sales and marketing strategic priorities from his base in Hong Kong.

Based in Marriott’s Singapore office, Er will focus on developing this strategically important source market, cement global customer relationships and drive increased market share from new and existing global accounts.

Commenting on these new positions, David Townshend, Marriott’s Senior Vice President – Global Sales, said, “These new positions have been created in accordance with Marriott International’s continental structure to implement Marriott’s overall sales, marketing and revenue management strategies throughout the region and help support the company’s aggressive growth plans in Asia Pacific. Asia is critically important to Marriott and its brands and we feel that adding these two critical functions will enable us to strengthen our leadership position in Asia, as well as communicate more effectively with our key customers in the region.”

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